In this blog’s experience, California has always been less rooted and less traditional than much of the rest of the country. It occupies a space deep in the American psyche, drawing all types of people.

This blog still maintains that culturally, it profits to see California as a test case for the rise of both environmentalism and multiculturalism. It’s doubtful that many of the people who embrace such ideas as guides for living, public policy, educational practices and political incentives will associate their ideas with California’s current economic problems.

Many Californians are facing the squeeze because they have to.

Feel free to highlight my ignorance. Any thoughts and comments are welcome.

‘Soon, even the Stanford professor and the La Jolla administrator may learn that illegal immigration, cumbersome regulations, and the terrible elementary schools affect them as well.

The four-part solution for California is clear: don’t raise the state’s crushing taxes any higher; reform public-employee compensation: make use of ample natural resources: and stop the flow of illegal aliens. Just focus on those four areas-as California did so well in the past-and in time, the state will return to its bounty of a few decades ago. Many of us intend to stay and see that it does.

***California’s got tremendous natural beauty and resources, and much in the way of ‘human capital,’ especially in technology and the sciences, partially due to the old Master Plan).